Hello! My name is Megan and I’m a first year Geography student.
My name’s Ify. I am a second year Aerospace Engineering student.
My name’s Martha. I’m a final year Zoology student.
And today we’re taking you on a tour of the University Park Campus.
So we’re starting our tour at the iconic Trent Building which you can see from all
around campus. It was built in 1928 and is home to the School of English, and there’s
also a lovely café inside.
So we’re at our second stop on campus, and this is the Portland Building. As a Nottingham
student you spend so much time here as this is the Students’ Union and the main hub of campus.
It’s home to so many shops, cafés and societies.
So heading in towards the back of Portland you’ve got the stairs down to Mooch (the student bar).
Portland Zero - so this is our zero waste shop. It is excellent.
We have a Boots and behind there a Spar, so if you are eating catered you get your student card
and you can buy food on the card which is very good. I’m about to get a meal deal.
So we’ve got Portland Clothing Co, so that’s where you come and get your university merch.
There’s a hairdressers here. They’re really good, really good prices.
And this is Blackwells. This is closed until the new academic year but hopefully you should be able to see there,
and that’s where you can get textbooks, books, stationery supplies, all that kind of stuff.
And there’s Portland Coffee Co. It’s our main café, it’s lovely in there. I thoroughly
recommend the vegan hot chocolate with almond milk. It is gorgeous.
As you can see here we’ve got the Job Zone. The uni offers some really really good careers
advice. The Careers Service is really versatile. They offer a ton of different services such
as CV reviews, workshops, mock interviews. They have a lot of experience, they do the
whole shebang. Honestly you should utilise it as much as possible because it will really
help you with your transition out of uni and into the working world.
I’m just about to head into Mooch. It’s kind of like our own little version of a Spoons
but on campus. It’s really good, really really cheap for drinks and for meals for
students in Portland Building.
On the middle floor of the Students’ Union which is home to a lot of the media societies
that they have here. So over here we have the Impact magazine which is a student run
magazine written for Nottingham students by Nottingham students. Over here we have NSTV
which is the student run broadcasting team. And then we’ve got the University of Nottingham Radio.
And then also there’s the Students’ Union Advice down here.
They have saved my skin more times than I can count when applying
for houses and them looking over your contract to make sure they’re treating me correctly.
Heading out of the Media Zone this is the Get Involved section. This is where Volunteering
runs out of. And there’s also different rooms for students and groups to use.
So at University of Nottingham they have about 200 different societies. From sports, music,
entertainment, technology. Pretty much any society you could think of, any society that
you want to join, we definitely have it! So far this year I’ve been able to join
the Geography society and the Catholic society, and next year I’m going to be the publicity
sec for the Geography society. I helped out at the Nottingham New Theatre.
They have their own building, I think it’s one of the only student-run theatres in any
university in the country I believe. They do some really awesome stuff.
Also I’ve been in Hide and Soc where you kind of play like childhood games that are
really fun, like dodgeball, hide and seek. We’ve done hide and seek in the SU. There’s
so many different places to hide! I am also the Environment and Social Justice
officer. It is really fun being an officer. Definitely recommend anyone who wants to get
into the SU, do it, it’s really fun.
I’m just heading up towards the food court area where we have a multitude of different
foods and cuisines available. We have fast food, Starbucks, Chinese, Nigerian food. They
have a lot of different selections here and you can get pretty much anything you want
while you’re around here. Currently obviously due to Covid we have no
tables or anything around here. But we’ve got a lot of different types of cuisines here.
The transport links here at Nottingham are excellent. We have our own hopper bus which
can take you from campus to campus. We also have many public bus stops which take
you into the city and to the surrounding areas.
So here we are at the Hallward Library where all of the BA students’ books are located,
but anyone can book a study space here. You can get a room or you can just get a table
and a chair. You can book study spaces and reserve books online.
So here we are at the Monica Partridge Building which is another study space. Personally it’s
my favourite space to study because you don’t have to book any rooms or spaces. You can
also do group study or study alone here.
Here we are at the Millennium Gardens which is one of the many gardens on campus. It’s
one of my favourite spaces to relax and to have a picnic after a long day at the Monica Partridge Building.
You’ve got Monica Partridge Building there,
you’ve got Hallward Library there and the Law and Social Sciences Building that way.
So you’re really in the centre of it all. You can travel everywhere very easily on
foot but there’s areas like this everywhere.
I am now just heading towards The Downs. As you can see we’ve got a lovely lovely view
here. And you can see across the grass some students obviously enjoying the sun.
It’s another perfect place to relax with your friends, especially on the weekend, another
place that’s great for picnics. And as you can see there’s lots of accommodation around here.
A lot of the student accommodation that you can get on campus in your first year is really close to The Downs.
You’ve got Lincoln, Rutland, Derby all around this area near The Downs,
which also have solar panels installed on the top of them.
It’s just a really enjoyable natural space and it’s really nice to live around.
Obviously Portland is literally just 5 or 10 minutes up that way
so it’s very close to Portland Building as well, the accommodation around this area.
A quick side note as well, there are bunnies actually dotted all over campus.
They’re actually quite easy to find.
And at the bottom of The Downs there, literally starting from where I am now, a 3-5 minute walk at best,
is where the David Ross Sports Village is. Literally a stone’s throw.
You can see just behind me is Rutland Hall behind me there. We are now at the entrance
to the massive and beautiful David Ross Sports Village. Let’s head inside and check it out!
I’m currently in the main David Ross gym.
You can see you’ve got a ton of rack machines over here, we’ve got weights, free weights
over there, cardio going on down there and mostly cardio up along this side as well.
So the gym at the uni here in David Ross is very very comprehensive. They’ve got a lot
of different things, and yeah, you should definitely sign up for the gym here. If you’re
doing cardio around this area you also get to have a really good view out near where
all the sports pitches are and stuff. This here is the showcase squash court. We
have a lot of very high level squash matches that are held right here in the university.
We’ve also got some squash courts along this area heading towards the swimming pool.
You can see here we’ve got the David Ross Sports swimming centre. It comes with your
membership as well, you’ll get access to all the swimming facilities over here.
In David Ross as well we’ve also got a massive climbing wall. So for all the climbing enthusiasts
out there we do have a climbing society that uses both the walls and goes to outdoor space
as well. This is a really good addition that we have in David Ross.
As you see all the facilities are very very new, very very nice. I really recommend getting
membership there. It’s really really good and it will be worth your while, especially
with all the sports societies that have this amount of facilities that are just available to them.
But anyway, now I am going to wait for a hopper bus.
I’m going to be grabbing a hopper bus back to East Drive.
Now I’m just coming along towards East Drive. I took a hopper bus down here. Hopper buses
are really really useful. You can go on it entirely for free. You can get the 34 if you’re
looking to go towards the city. You see it says the ‘city loop’, it’s because it
goes from the city centre right round Lenton area and right back to campus, and it just
goes on a loop round there. The 34 you can get a discounted fare to go along there if
you’re a student. But the hopper buses and the actual bus that goes towards the city
are really really useful for getting around.
So here we are at the lake which is personally one of my favourite places on campus.
It's such a lovely walk to go around and there’s a park, there’s Lakeside Arts Centre behind us,
and you can also hire a boat.
So here we are at the University of Nottingham tram stop which is right by Highfields Park.
We also have another tram stop which is nearer the Co-op, nearer Broadgate Park, near Willoughby
and Cavendish Hall. The tram is a super easy and cheap form of transport and the other
modes of transport in Nottingham are also really cheap and affordable too.
So it's just so easy to get in and out of the city, to the train station and to other parts of the Nottinghamshire area.
This is my absolute favourite spot on campus. So many people come here to take dissertation
photos and I can’t wait for that to be me in 2 years’ time!
You can even go boating on Highfields Lake like we’re doing now.
I’m just coming from East Drive now to head towards George Green which is just this building
in the middle here. So this is George Green Library as you can see right behind me. This
library is a very modern library. If you’re doing a STEM subject this is likely to be
the library that you go to, just mainly because it’s situated right next to everything in
the STEM department. So Engineering, the Physics Building, the Chemistry Building is all situated
right around George Green Library. George Green is also open to every single
student. You can just study wherever inside. It’s got almost every resource I’ve ever
needed for my course in terms of textbooks, computers, printing facilities.
And now I’m heading towards the Nottingham sign. You’ve all seen it, you all love it.
There it is!
Here we are at the Nottingham sign which you may have seen all over Instagram and YouTube.
This is everyone’s favourite place to come and take photos.
I’m heading up to Cripps Health Centre which is the on-campus GP. There’s also a Boots Pharmacy.
Cripps also has the mental health service and a dentist upstairs so you have
all the resources you need to right on campus. The Health Centre’s wonderful.
I've had some really great experiences with some of the doctors there.
And this way heads back across The Downs and towards Portland and kind of the front of the university.
I really hope that you enjoyed this tour and that it gave you an insight into the beautiful
Uni Park Campus, and hopefully I’ll see you soon. Bye!